Botanist’s Garden Junk Journal

Hey, everyone! Emily Oliver of Pinkpaper 44, one of our amazing Junk Journal Design Team Members, created a fabulous  Botanist’s Garden Junk Journal for us this week. As you know, we feature one new Junk Journal project each week created by one of our creative team of artists. Our Design Team Members select from the 100’s of Vintage Image Bundles on our Premium Membership Site, for their creations, in order to show you beautiful ways to use those images. We hope you will be totally inspired by this series!

Therefore, please make sure you check out the video tour at the bottom of the page…please scroll all the way down to see it. Are you ready to be inspired? I will step out of the way and let Emily tell you all about her incredible project…

Hello everyone, my name is Emily from pinkpaper44 and this month’s journal is called the Botanist’s Garden. I’m not exactly sure what inspired this journal other than I just love everything about flower gardening, the seeds, bulbs, the terracotta pots and the gorgeous blossoms, it’s all really inspiring and that’s why I decided to create this journal, the Botanist’s Garden.

The cover is made of several green file folders with the closure on the side to make it look more like a box, along with a window pocket on the top for a glimpse of what lies inside.

This lap-book is the base of the journal. I used a lot of the images from Spring Bulbs to create the pattern paper for all the foldouts, envelopes, pockets and hidden spaces.

The main journal is completely removable tied in with a piece of twine for easier journaling.

I made two pockets on both ends of the cover with some vintage paper bags that I embossed and filled them with lots of ephemera for more journaling.

This journal has lots of pockets and tuck spots made from envelopes, book pages, paper bags and other bits and bobs

These pages were inspired by one of their printables that had a design with the seed packets taped on, so I used some of their seed packets to make my own that flip up for more journaling under them and still able to put something inside.

And here are a few layouts I created with some book pages and some digital kits that I thought paired nicely together.

This is a pocket flower press to take where ever you want. I made it from chipboard that I decorated and added some book pages inside to put the flowers in for pressing, the twine is to keep it tightly closed.

And that is my garden lap book for the Graphic Fairy Design Team. There is a full flip through video available at the bottom of this page along with the link for my Etsy shop where this junk journal will be listed for sale. 

BOTANIST’S GARDEN JUNK JOURNAL SHOW  & TELL VIDEO TOUR

Premium Membership Bundles used in this project:

The Graphic Fairy premium website has so many great images and kits for this theme I couldn’t fit them all in one journal so I may have to make another one, but here’s a list of the ones I did used.

◦ SPRING BULBS
◦ SPRING FLORALS
◦ WINTER GARDEN
◦ VINTAGE GARDEN
◦ BLACK & WHITE GARDEN
◦ The SECRET GARDEN
◦ SEED CATALOG
◦ CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW INSPIRED
◦ THE PLANT WOMAN
◦ The POLLINATORS
◦ CULTIVATING BEAUTY
◦ YELLOW & PURPLE BOTANICALS
◦ PINK & YELLOW BOTANICALS
◦ 1840’S FLORAL PAIRINGS
◦ WILDFLOWER FIELD GUIDE
◦ HERBAL APOTHECARY SHOPPE
◦ BRITISH FLOWER GUIDE
◦ PINK & BLUE FLORICULTURE
◦ WILDFLOWER FIELD GUIDE
◦ BOTANIST’S FIELD GUIDE
◦ STOCK LABELS
◦ COUNTRY LANE

Thank you all so much I hope you enjoyed and found some inspiration in this journal.

I hope you will visit me here:

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Emily’s Etsy

Emily

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